Editor Alexandra Shulman introduces the March 2014 issue:

On our cover, we've labelled this issue Fashion's Free Spirit. From Tyrone Lebon's contemporary eveningwear story "Paradise City", featuring Georgia May Jagger and Charlotte Free in post-party mood, to Craig McDean's striking "Pop Core", March Vogue is an explosion of life and colour reflecting the new mood for spring.

Kate Moss, surely one of the most famous free spirits of our age, has styled her first fashion shoot for us. Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, "Cause Célèbre" is - possibly unsurprisingly - a homage to renegade rock style. From gathering the initial moodboard to talking me through the rail of clothes in the Vogue fashion room and adjusting the accessories on Daria Werbowy, Kate took on the complete role of fashion editor - although perhaps not every editor takes her model out partying on the first night of the shoot!

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Daria not only appears in Kate's story but also on our cover and in Mario Testino's "Rainbow Babes". Her own love of the natural world and travel made her an appropriate subject for this story, which highlights the richness of ethnicities and techniques in the spring/summer collections and which we used as a visual trigger for Jo Ellison's article on so many people's current obsession with trying to reconnect to the natural and spiritual world ("Hear Me Roar"). For the piece, Jo swapped her comfort zone of Mount Street changing rooms and Soho screening rooms for the world of shamans, chanting and stomping. Read it to see what she concluded.

Sarah Moon was one of the photographers whose work first had a real impact on me, making me realise the emotive power of a fashion image. No one who was a teenager in the Seventies could forget the compelling pictures she shot for Biba - of a wide-eyed, exotically made-up girl who so completely defined the style of the time - and the influence those pictures had on me has informed much of my attitude to fashion photography. For many years since then, she has forged an independent career, producing her own work irrespective of the changes in the fashion zeitgeist, and the pictures that she shot forVogue in the early Nineties are among some of my favourite commissions. So I am delighted that this month - in advance of her new exhibition, About Colour - we have been able to publish a rare and illuminating interview between her and contributing editor Robin Muir ("Full Moon") which gives an insight into one of photography's most resilient free spirits.

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This article was first published in the March 2014 issue of Vogue magazine